SLIDE 2 Hawai’i Health Care Innovation Models Project Work Force Committee Meeting June 25, 2015 State of Hawai‘i, Health Care Innovation Office | Page 2 of 4 DLIR Appropriation:
- Dr. Withy provided background information regarding the development of a central health
workforce center
- Brief mention of plans for determining what the center would do, where it would be housed,
and how it would be funded
- Dr. Withy discussed the introduction of HB 696 to create a Health Workforce Advisory Board, in
addition to Information Technology and Agriculture Boards Total monetary allocation for the collective Boards in 2016 is $400,000 Jillian Yasutake identified the purpose, scope, and direction for the Health Workforce Advisory Board
- Board’s imperatives include policy planning and skill panels building
- Representatives from the Department of Labor, public health sector, UH system, Community
Colleges, nursing sector, and HHC will comprise the Board
- Subcommittees for education and training purposes could be established, and include
participants from outside resources Project ECHO:
- Dr. Withy discussed the Project ECHO history, based on the pilot in New Mexico
Education and tele-monitoring offered to healthcare providers using distance for 1.5-2 hours a week
- n topics to be identified as most needed by rural providers. Dr. Withy will be adapting a Project
ECHO program for Hawaii
- Participants from Hawaii State Rural Health Association will be traveling to NM for a three
day, funded by State Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
- Training will be provided in the areas identified as most needed by survey of Hawaii provides
and could include Hepatitis C, child health, and addiction, as well as many others.
- Plans to survey healthcare providers in Hawaii, especially those in rural settings, to ascertain
which areas of ongoing continuing education would be most helpful
- Survey to include representation among the Department of Corrections and community
health centers
- Recruit specialists and volunteers from the pharmacy, social work, addictions, hepatology,
and infectious disease fields to provide ‘train the trainer’ series
- PhD student enlisted to develop the survey, into which he will build assessment measures
for prospective cost savings State Innovation Model (SIM) Grant: (Please see attached slides for more detail) Co-Chair Beth Giesting provided an overview of SIM process: Health care innovation/transformation started with stakeholder convening in 2012 SIM Round 1 was carried out in 2013 with stakeholder engagement, broad in administration and high level in conceptualization SIM Round 2 provides the opportunity to create a more finely tuned implementation plan, more narrowly focused All Payer Claims Database (APCD) and No Wrong Door (through the Executive Office on Aging) are also working parallel to SIM SIM 2 continues to focus on the Triple Aim +1 Goal: Better Health, Better Care, Cost- Effective Care, and the +1 for Hawai’i, which is to reduce health disparities SIM 2 Targets: behavioral health integration with primary care and oral improvement via increased access
- Focus on Medicaid: Judy Mohr-Peterson will soon begin as the new Medicaid
Administrator
